Accountability Bodies

11.24.15 - (PRESS RELEASE)
The governments of Russia and Slovakia are undermining women’s human rights by
introducing retrogressive barriers in access to safe and legal abortion,
according to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination
against Women (U.N. CEDAW)…

11.23.15 - Across
Central and Eastern European countries, women’s access to abortion services is increasingly
threatened by the introduction of regressive legal and policy measures that impose
mandatory waiting periods and biased counseling and information requirements prior
to abortion…

10.20.15 - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights held a hearing in the case
of Paola del Rosario Guzmán Albarracín, an Ecuadorian teenager who was
sexually abused repeatedly by her school’s vice-principal for two years.
Petita Albarracín, Paola’s mother, told the Commission about her…

10.13.15 - (PRESS
RELEASE)
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has called on the
government of Bangladesh to take active measures to end child marriage and to
improve access to adolescent friendly health services…

09.24.15 - (PRESS
RELEASE) This
week the United States government rejected recommendations from the United
Kingdom, the Netherlands, Norway, and Belgium urging the Obama administration
to implement the Helms Amendment correctly—preventing women worldwide from
accessing safe, legal reproductive…

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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights held a hearing in the case
of Paola del Rosario Guzmán Albarracín, an Ecuadorian teenager who was
sexually abused repeatedly by her school’s vice-principal for two years.
Petita Albarracín, Paola’s mother, told the Commission about her…